[greedo]

100K square miles is a pretty big area to search. Actually more than that since a plane cruising at 30K feet could glide quite far if it maintained some airframe integrity.

[sp332]

Yeah the search area would be about the size of New Mexico. But a larger area than that was searched in one day, Wednesday March 19 2014. http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/malaysia-MH370-sea...